BCEC | WGEA Gender Equity Insights 2021: Making it a Priority
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) and Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) partnered in 2016 to create the Gender Equity Insights series.
Since its inception, this research series has added significant findings to the national and international evidence base around what works to deliver greater gender equality across Australia’s biggest workplaces through expert analyses and research based on the world-leading WGEA reporting data.
On Friday 26 March we are holding a breakfast to launch the sixth report in the series, Gender Equity Insights 2021: Making it a Priority, with special guest speaker the Hon Simone McGurk, Minister for Child Protection; Women’s Interests; Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence; Community Services.
This new report uncovers fresh insights about what works to improve gender equality across Australia’s largest workplaces by identifying the top performers in gender equity, while also highlighting the risks and challenges to achieving gender equality in workplaces in the years ahead.
Join us for breakfast with our expert panel: Libby Lyons, Director, Workplace Gender Equality Agency; Graham Kerr, Chief Executive Officer, South32; Associate Professor Rebecca Cassells, Deputy Director, BCEC; and John Curtin Distinguished Professor Alan Duncan, Director, BCEC, in a facilitated conversation with Tracy Vo, Journalist, Presenter and Author.
Rebecca Cassells and Alan Duncan will present the latest findings from the BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity Insights 2021: Making it a Priority report.
Date Friday 26 March, 2021
Time 7.15am (7.30am start) – 9.00am
Location BellVue Ballroom 1, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, 4 Mounts Bay Road, Perth
Cost $59
Registrations have now closed. For ticket enquiries, please email bcec@curtin.edu.au.
Further Information
Presentation: Gender Equity Insights 2021: Making it a Priority
View the presentation given by John Curtin Distinguished Professor Alan Duncan and Associate Professor Rebecca Cassells, of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, at the report launch on Friday 26 March, 2021. For seven years, non-public sector organisations in Australia with... Read article
BCEC and WGEA launch Gender Equity Insights 2021: Making it a Priority report
Gender Equity Insights 2021: Making it a Priority was launched at a breakfast event at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre in collaboration with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) on Friday 26 March. Hosted by Tracy Vo from 9News, the... Read article
Highlights from the BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity Insights 2021 Report Launch
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The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.